Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts
The following manuscripts are housed in the University of
Virginia's Valentine-Barrett collection and are reproduced with
permission.
- As of Eternity [two leaves]
- Buds
- Calamus Leaves
Live Oak, with
Moss
- City of my walks and joys
- Confession Drops
- Earth!
My likeness!
- Here the frailest leaves of me
- Hours continuing long,
sore and heavy hearted [three leaves]
- I dreamed in a dream of a city
- I saw in Louisiana a
live-oak growing [two leaves]
- In the garden the world, I, Adam, again
wander
- Leaf / A promise to Indiana
- Leaf / O dying! Always dying!
- Leaf
let / May-Be one will read
this [two leaves]
- Leaf
let / What place is
besieged
- A leaf for hand-in-hand!
- Long I thought that knowledge alone would
suffice me [three leaves]
- O you who I often and silently come where you
are
- Of the doubts, the uncertainties after all
[two leaves]
- Poemet [two leaves]
- Prarie-Grass
- Razzia
- Scented herbage of my breast [six leaves]
- Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with
rage
- That shadow, my likeness
- These I, singing in
spring, collect for lovers,
- This moment as I sit alone
- To a new personal admirer [two leaves]
- To A Stranger [two leaves]
- To one a century hence, or any number of
centuries hence
- To One Who Will Understand
- To the young man
- Was it I who walked the earh disclaiming all
except what I had in myself? [two leaves]
- What think you I have taken my pen to record?
- When I heard at the close of the day [two
leaves]
- You bards of ages hence! [three leaves]